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MARJORIE SANDOR and AIMEE BENDER present THE UNCANNY READER: STORIES FROM THE SHADOWS

The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (St. Martin's Griffin)

From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with “The Sand-man,” E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1817 tale of dopplegangers and automatons—a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th century masters of the uncanny—including Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Shirley Jackson—form a foundation for sixteen award-winning contemporary authors, established and new, whose work blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the unknown. These writers come from Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, England, Sweden, the United States, Uruguay, and Zambia—although their birthplaces are not always the terrains they plumb in their stories, nor do they confine themselves to their own eras. Contemporary authors include: Chris Adrian, Aimee Bender, Kate Bernheimer, Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Jonathon Carroll, John Herdman, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Yoko Ogawa, Dean Paschal, Karen Russell, Namwali Serpell, Steve Stern and Karen Tidbeck.

Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books, most recently The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction. Her story collection, Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime, won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and an essay collection, The Night Gardener: A Search for Home won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, AGNI, The Hopkins Review and The Harvard Review among others. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Color Master, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—a New York Times bestseller—and An Invisible Sign of My Own, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Marjorie Sandor photo by Wendy Madar

Aimee Bender photo by Mark Miller

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Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 7:30pm
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Los Angeles, CA 90027
Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories By Marjorie Sandor Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781889330822
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Published: Sarabande Books - May 1st, 2003

The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction By Marjorie Sandor Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781611450057
Published: Arcade - May 11th, 2011

The Color Master By Aimee Bender Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - April 22nd, 2014

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake By Aimee Bender Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - April 19th, 2011

Willful Creatures By Aimee Bender Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - August 8th, 2006

An Invisible Sign of My Own: A Novel By Aimee Bender Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - July 17th, 2001

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories By Aimee Bender Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - August 17th, 1999